It is a fascinating approach. It's where you take something and turn it upside down and look at it...

 There must be this approach employed somewhere in this example. They surely talk about other leisure class theory than Veblen.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

An economic mystery: Why do the poor seem to have more free time than the rich?

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In 1965, leisure was pretty much equally distributed across classes. People of the same age, sex, and family size tended to have about the same amount of leisure, regardless of their socioeconomic status. But since then, two things have happened. First, leisure (like income) has increased dramatically across the board. Second, though everyone's a winner, the biggest winners are at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.